Hiram Kelsey, Southington

After retiring from Northeast Utilities, Hiram Kelsey of Southington resumed his old hobby of photography. "My opinion has always been that great pictures do not require airline tickets to exotic places," he says. "Beauty is very close, if we only open our eyes and appreciate our surroundings. I'm taking advantage of the fabulous subjects that nature and mankind offer us, and capturing brief visuals of those wonderful scenes with my newer, a bit more complex, but still relatively simple, digital camera." The image on the cover was taken in Florida.

After retiring from Northeast Utilities, Hiram Kelsey of Southington resumed his old hobby of photography. "My opinion has always been that great pictures do not require airline tickets to exotic places," he says. "Beauty is very close, if we only open our eyes and appreciate our surroundings. I'm taking advantage of the fabulous subjects that nature and mankind offer us, and capturing brief visuals of those wonderful scenes with my newer, a bit more complex, but still relatively simple, digital camera." The image on the cover was taken in Florida.